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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher.
TALMAGE’S 3EBMOX
Eighth Sermon of the Series on the
Marriage Ring.
Hotel and Boarding House vs. Home Life—
The True Realization of the Family
Relation Impossible Except
Voder the Home Roof.
In his seventh <ifscour.se of the “Marriage
Ring” series, Rev. T. DeWitt Taltnage
drew a strong picture of contrasts between
the hotel and boarding-house life, now
getting so common, and that of life under
the home roof. The text was:
And brought him to an inn, and took care
of him. And on the morrow, when he de
parted, he took out two-pence and gave
them to (lie host, and said unto him. “Take
care of him, and whntsoe\ ;r thou spendest
more, wi en 1 come again 1 will repay thee.”
—Luke x, :n and 3a.
This is the good Samaritan paying the
hotel bill of a man who had been robbed
and almost killed by bandits. The good
Samaritan had found the unfortunate on a
lonely, rocky road, where to this very day
depredations are sometimes committed
upon travelers, and had put the injured
man into the saddle, while this merciful
and well-to-do man had walked till they
got to the hotel and the wounded man was
put to bed and cared for. It must have
been a very superior hotel in its accommo
dations, for, though in the country, the
landlord was paid at the rate of what in
our country would be four or live dollars a
day, a penny being then ada.y's wages,
and the two pennies paid in this case about
two days’ wages. Moreover, it was onedf
those kind-hearted landlords who are
wrapped up in the happiness of their
guests, because the good Samaritan leaves
the poor wounded fellow to his entire care,
promising that when he came that way
again he would pay all the bills until the
invalid got well. - -
Hotels and boarding-houses are necessi
ties. In very ancient times they were un
known, because the world had compara
tively few inhabitants, who were not
much given to travel, and private hospL
taiity met all the wants of sojourners; as
when Abraham rushed out at Mamre to
invite the three men to.sit down to a din
uer of veal; as when Lydia urged the
apostles to accept of her home; as when
the people were positively commanded to
be given to hospitality; as in many of the
places in the East these ancient customs
are practiced to day. But we have now
hotels presided over by-good landlords,
and boarding-houses presided over by ex
cellent host or hostess, in all neighbor
hoods, villagesgind cities, and it is our
congratulation that those of our land sur
pass all other lands. They rightly be
come the permanent residences of many
people, such as those who are without
families, such as those whose business
keeps them migratory,such as those who
ought not, for various reasons of health or
peculiarity of circumstances, take upon
themselves the cares of housekeeping.
There never has been a time when so
many families, healthy and abundantly
able to support’ and direct homes of
their own, have struck tent and taken
permanent abode in these public estab
lishments. It is an evil wide as Chris
tendom, and by voice and through the
newspaper press I utter warning and
burning protest, aud 'ask Almighty God
to bless the word, whether in the hearing
or reading.
In these public caravansaries the de
mon of gossip is apt to get full sway.
All the boarders run daily the gantlet
of general inspection how they look
when they come down in the morning
and when they get in at night, and what
they do for a living, and who they re
ceive as guests in their rooms, and what
they wear and what they do not wear, and
how they eat and what they eat, and how
much they eat and how little they eat.
If a man proposes in such a place to be
isolated and reticent and . alone, they
will begin to guess about him. Who is
he? Where did he come from? How
long is he going sto stay? Has he paid
his board? How much does he pay? Per
haps he has committed some crime, and
does not want to be known; there must
be something wrong about him or he
would speak.
The simple fact is, that he is nobody in
particular, but minds his own business.
The best landlords and landladies can not
sometimes hinder their places from be
coming a pandemonium of whispers, and
reputations are torn to tatters, and evil
suspicions are aroused and scandals start
ed, and the parliament of the family is
blown to atoms by some Guy Fawkes who
was not caught in time, as was his En
glish predecessor of gun-powdery reputa
tion.
The reason is, that while in private
homes families have so much to keep them
busy, in these promiscuous and multi
tudinous residences there are so many who
have nothing to do, and that always makes
mischief. They gather in each other’s
rooms and spend hours in consultation
about others. If they had to walk a half
mile before they got to the willing ear of
some listener to detraction, they would get
out of breath before reaching there, and not
feel in full glow of animosity or slander,
or might, because of the distance, not go at
all. But rooms 20, 21, 22, 23, 21 and 25 are
on the same corridor, and when one car
rion crow goes “caw ! caw!” all the other
hear it and flock together over the same
carcass. *
Those of us who were brought up in the
country know that theold-fashioned hatch
ing of eggs in the hay-mow required four
or five weeks of brooding, but there are
new modes of hatching by machinery,
which take less time and do the work in
wholesale. So, while the private home
may brood into life an occasional falsity
and take a long time to do it, many of the
boarding-houses and family hotels afford
a swifter and more multitudinous style of
moral incubation, and one old gossip will
get off the nest a/ter oue hour’s brooding,
clucking a flock of thirty lies after her,
each one picking up its little worm of juicy
regalement.
It is no advantage to hear too much
about your neighbors, for your time will
be so much occupied in taking care of their
faults that you will have no time to look
after your own. And while you are pull
ing the chickweed out of their garden yours
will get all overgrown with horse-sorrel
and mullein stalks.
One of the worst damages that comes
from the herding of so many people into
boarding-houses and family hotels is in
flicted upon children. It is only another
way of briuging them up on the commons.
While you havayour own private house
you can, for the most part, control their
companionship and their whereabouts;
but, by twelve years of age* in these pub
lic resorts, they will have picked up all the
bad things that can be furnished by the
prurient minds of dozens of people. They
will overhear blasphemies and see quar
rels, and get precocious in sin, and what
the bar-tender does not tell them, the
porter or hostler or bell-boy will. Besides
that, the children will go out into this
world without the restraining, anchoring,
steadying and all controlling memory of
a home. From that some of us who have
been blessed of such memory have escaped.
It grips a man for eighty years, if he lives
so long. It pulls him back from doors into
which he otherwise would enter. It smites
him with contrition in the very midst of
his dissipations.
If it be possible, 0 father and mother,
let your sons and daughters go out into
the world under the semi-omnipotent
memory of a good, pure home. About
your two or three rooms in a boarding
house or a family hotel you can cast no
such glorious sanctity. They will think
of these public caravansaries as an early
stopping place, malodorous with old vict
uals, coffees perpetually steaming, and
meats in everlasting stew or broil, the
air surcharged with carbonic acid, and
corridors along which drunken boarders
come staggering at one o’clock in the
morning, rapping at the door till the af
frighted wife lets them in. Do not be
guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy ot
'calling such a place a home.
Unless it be necessary to stay for longer
or shorter time in family hotel or board
ing house —and there are thousands of in
stances in which it is necessary, as I
showed 3'ou at the beginning—unless in
this exceptional case, let neither hus.band
nor wife consent, to such permanent resi
dence. i
The probability is that the wife will have
to divide her husband’s time with public
smoking or reading-room, or with some
coquettish, spfder in search of unwary flies,
and if you do not entirely lose your hus
band it will-be because he is divinely pro
tected from the disasters' that have
whelmed thousands of husbands with as
good intention's as yours.
Neither should the husband, without im
perative reason, consent to such a li ’e un
less he is sure his wife can withstand the
temptation of social dissipation, which
sweeps across such places with the force of
the Atlantic Ocean when driven by a Sep
tember equinox. Many wives give up
their homes for these public residences, so
that they may give their entire time to
operas, theaters, balls, receptions and
levees, and they are in a perpetual whirl,
like a whip-top spinning round and round
and round, very prettily, until it loses its
equipoi e and shoots off into a tangent.
But the difference is. in one case it i»a top
and in the other a soul.
Besides this there is an assiduous accu
mulation of little things around the private
home which in the aggregate make a great
attraction, while the denizen of one of these
public residences is apt to say: “What is
the use? 1 have no place to keep them if I
should take them.” Mementoes, bric-a
brac, curiosities, quaint chair or cozy
lounge, upholsteries, pictures and a thou
sand things that accrete in a home are dis
carded or neglected because there is no
homestead in which to arrange them. And
yet they are the case in which the pearl of
domestic happiness is set.
You can never become as attached to the
appointments of a hoarding-house or fam
ily hotel as to those things that you can
call your own, and are associated with the
different members of your household, or
with scenes of thrilling import in your do
mestic history. Blessed is that home in
which for a whole lifetime they have been
gathering, until every figure in the carpet,
and every casement of the window, has a
chirographv of its own, speaking out some
thing about father or mother, or son or
daughter, or friend that was with us
awhile.
What a sacred place it becomes when
one can say : "In that room such a one
was born; in that bed such a one died; in
that chair I sat on the night I heard such e
one had received a great public honor; by
that stool my child knelt for her last even
ing prayer; here I sat to greet my son as
be came back from a sea voyage; that was
father’s cane; that was mother’s rocking
chair. What a joyful and pathetic con
gress of reminiscences!
The public residence of hotel and board
ing-house abolishes the grace of hospitali
ty. Your guest does not want to come to
t ich a table. No one wants to run such a
gauntlet of acute and merciless bypercriti
c sra. Unless you have a home of your
cwn you will not be able to exercise the
best rewarded of all the graces. For ex
ercise of this grace w-hat blessing came to
tae Shuuammite in*the restoration of her
eon to life because she entertained Elisha,
and to the widow of Zarepbath in the
j erpetual oil well of the miraculous
e -use because she fed a hungry prophet,
aAd to Rahab in the preservation of
her life at the demolition of Jericho be
cause she entertained the spies, aui to
Liban in the formation of an interesting
family relation because of his entertain
ment of Jacob, and to Lot in his rescue
froro the destroyed city because of his en -
tertainment of the angels, and to Mary and
Martha and Zaceheus in spiritual blessing
because they entertained Christ, and to
Publius in the Island of MelitA in the heal-
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 5. 1886.
ing of his father, because of the entertain
ment of Paul, drenched from the ship
wreck, and of innumerable houses through
out Christendom upon which have com e
blessings from generation to generation
because their doors swung easily open in
the enlarging, ennobling, irradiating and
divine grace of hospitality.
I do not know what your experience has
been, but I have had men and women
visiting at my house who left a benedic
tion on every room—in the blessing they
asked at the table, in the prayer they of
fered at the family altar, in the good ad
vice they gave the children, in the gospel
ization that looked out from every linea
ment of their countenances; and their de
parture was the sword of bereavoment.
The Queen of Norway, Sweden and Den
mark ha 4 a royal cup of ten curves or
lips, each one having on it the name
of the distinguished person who had
drank from it. And that cup which we
offer to others in Christian ho pitality,
though it bS of the plainest earthenware,
is a royal cup, and God can read on all its
sides the names of those who have taken
from it refreshment.
But all this is impossible unless you have
a home of your own.
It is the delusion as to what is necessary
for a home that hinders so many from es
tablishing one. Thirty rooms are not nec
essary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten,
nor five, nor three.
In the right wav plant a table, and
couch, and knife, and fork, and a cup,
and a chair, and you can raise a young
paradise. Just start a home, on however
small a scale, and it will grow.
When King Cyrus was invited to dine
with an humble friend, the King made
the one condition of his coming that the
only dish be one loaf of bread, and the
most imperial satisfactions have some
times banqueted on the plainest fare.
Do not be caught in the delusion of many
thousands in postponing a home until they
can have an expensive one. That idea is
the devil’s trap that catches men and
women innumerable who will never have
any home at all. Capitalists of America,
build plain homes for the people. Let this
tenement-house system, in which hun
dreds of thousands of the people of our
cities are wallowing in the mire, be broken
up by small homes, where people can have
their own firesides and their own altar.
In this great continent there is room
enough for every man and woman to have
a home. Morals and civilization and re
ligion demand it.
. Young.married man. as soon as you chn,
buy a place, even if you have to put on it
a mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much-abused mortgage, which
is ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent
and provident is the beginning of a com
petency and a fortune, for the reason he
will not be satisfied until he has paid it off,
and all the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny your
selves all superfluities and all luxuries
until you can say, “Everything in this
house is mine, thank God! every tim
ber, every brick, every foot of plumbing,
every door sill.” Do not have your chil
dren born in a boarding-house, and do not
yourself be buried from one. Have a
place where your children can shout and
sing, and romp, without being overhauled
for the racket. Have a kitchen where you
can do something toward the reformation
of evil cookery and the lessening of this
nation of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost
one of his great battles by an attack pf in
digestion, so many men have such a daily
wrestle with the food swallowed that they
have no strength left for the battle of life;
and though your wife may know how to
p.av on all musical instruments and rival
a prima donna, she is not well educated
unless she can boil an Irish potato and
broil a mutton chop, since the diet some
times decides the fate of families and na
tions.
Have a sitting-room with at least one
easy chair, even though you have to take
the turns at sitting in it, and books out
of the public library of your own
purchase for the making of
your family intelligent, and checker
boards and guessing matches with an oc
casional blind man's buff, which is, of all
games, my favorite. Rouse up your home
with all styles of innocent mirth, and gath
er up to your children’s nature a reservoir
of exuberance that will pour down re
freshing streams when life gets parched,
and the dark days come, and the lights go
out, and the laughter is smothering into a
sob.
First, last and all the time, have Christ
in your home. Julius Caesar calmed the
fears of an affrighted boatman who was
rowing him in a stream, by stating: “So
long as Ceesar is with you in the same
boat, no harm can happen.” And what
ever st-ortn of adversity or bereavement or
poverty may strike your home, all is well
as long as you have Christ the King on
board. Make your home so far-reaching
in its influence that down to the last mo
ment of your children’s life you may hold
them with a heavenly charm.
At seventy-six years of age, the Dem os
thenes of the American Senate lay dying
at Washington—l mean Henry Clay, of
Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedside,
and “the old man eloquent,” after a long
and exciting public life, translantic and
cisatlantic, was back again in the scenes
of his boyhood, and he kept saying in his
dream over and over again:
“My mother! mother! mother!”
May the parental influence we exert be
not only potential, but holy, and so the
home on earth he the vestibule of our home
in heaven, in which place may we all meet
—father, mother, son, daughter, brother,
sister, grandfather and grandmother and
grandchild and the entire group of
precious ones, of whom we must say, in
the words of transporting Charles Weal ay:
One lamlly. we dwell in him;
One ohurch above, beneath;
Thou ;b now divide 1 by the stream—
The naiT <w stream of death—
One army ot the living God,
To his command we bow.
Part of the host have crossed the flood
Ann part are crossing now
COMES IN LIKE A LION.
Travol Delayed in Maine by Three
Feet of Snow.
Mercury Twenty Desirees Below Zero,
With High Winds, in New Hampshire.
Calais, Me., March I.—Aroostook County
is snowed under fully three feet on the
level. Trains are blockaded in all direc
tions. Provisions have been forwarded by
men on snow-shoes, and everything is be
ing made to make passengers comfortable.
Zero weather, with a strong northerly
wind prevails. No Western mail has ar
rived since Friday night.
Houston. Me., March I.— This section is
experiencing the worst snow-storm known
for twenty-five years. It has stormed con
tinuously for four days. The roads are
impassable and trains have been canceled.
Dover, N. H.. March I.—The sun ounding
towns this morning reported the mercury
as ranging from ten to twenty degrees be
low zero, and that a high wind was pre
vailing
St. John's, N. 8., March I.—This city is
blockaded by snow. Since Friday night no
trains or mails from the West have reached
here.
THE STAR OF HEAVEN.
The Man Who Establishes a New Order
Makes a Good Thing of It.
Wakuensbcrg, Mo., March 1. —Charles H.
Smith who was arrested here on last Friday
night, had succeeded, by a well devised
swindling scheme, in defrauding the inhab
itants of this and adjoining counties to the
amount of 130,000. His plan was as follows:
He pretended to have been specially or
dained by God to form a new secret order,
from which was to grow a new and the
only true religion. Accordingly he began
establishing the Order of the Star of
Heaven. He would grant a charter to any
six persons who applied for it, provided
each paid into the common funds twenty
five dollars. Charter members pledged
themselves not to take more than six more
members into a Lodge, thus allowing only
twelve members of a lodge. Then he had
prophetic visions in w hich great avenues
of wealth were opened up to him. On the
basis of these visions he induced his dupes
to mortgage their farms to the order, and
thus it became a sort of loan association.
The secretary had charge of the notes, deeds
and mortgages of the lodge, which he
turned over to the treasurer, who convert
ed them into cash. Sini'h was financial
agent ol' all the lodges, and here is where
the swindle is. When the lodge was organ
ized the first duty of the financial agent
was to purchase land near some town, di
vide it into town lots, which were pur
chased by members of the lodge from the
financial agent, as follows: A member
paid SSO for a lot—one-third cash anil a
note for the balance, bearing ten per cent,
interest, and gave a mortgage on the lot.
He then .'Ot SSO of the treasurer and
gave itauo liis note forslootothe financial
Hgent, ttAJ'p-ye the treasurer a receipt for
SSO. The agent returned the SSO to the
treasurer and had the note for SIOO. In this
way each m ember got a lot and the agent
many notes of from SIOO to SSOO each. The
notes were good. The agent sold them and
got rich in this manner. His victims are
numbered by
Public Debt Statement.
Washington, D. C., Maroh I.—The follow
ing is a recapitulation of the debt state
ment issued to-day for the mouth of Feb
ruary:
Interest-bearing debt—
Bonds at 4H per cent $ 250,000,000 00
Bonds at 4 per cent 787,750,000 00
Bonds at 8 per cent 184,002.350 00
certificates at 4 per o 215.500 00
Navy Pol| on Fund at 3 perct.. 14,000,0110 00
Pacißc Kill. bonds at ti per ct.. 64.023,512 00
Abcipal „ $1,250,681,062 00
I Jerest 10.540,844 64
* Total $1,261,222,506 64
Debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity—
Principal $4,258,465 26
Interest 207,383 78
Total $ 4,465,849 05
Debt bearing no interest —
Old dent'd & legal-tender notes 346,738,696 00
Certificates of deposit 14,920,0(ki 00
Gold cert floates 106,637,060 00
Silver certificates 88,390,816 00
Frac al curreno.v, less $8,375,984
estimated lost or destrojed.. 6,959,153 77
Principal $ 562,845.715 77
Total debt, principal 1,817,585,843 03
Interest 10,748,228 43
Total $1,828,334,071 46
Less cash items available for
reduction of the debt 223,955,748 94
Less reserve held for redemp
tion of United States notes 100,000,000 00
Total $ 323,955,748 94
Total debt less available cash
items 1,504,378,322 62
Net cash in Treasury 72,728.202 96
Debt, less cash in Treasury,
March 1, 1886 $1,432,080,319 60
Debt less cash in Treasury
February 1, 1885 $1,434,782.272 91
Decrease of debt during the
month $2,702,153 31
Cash in Treasury available
for reduction of the debt—
Gold held for gold certificates
actually outstanding $105,637,050 00
Silver held for silver certifi
cates actually outstanding . 88,390,816 00
United States notes held tor
certificates of deposit actual
ly outstanding 14,920,000 00
Cash held for matured debt
and interest unpaid 15,006,693 69
Fractional currency 1,189 25
Total available for reduc
tion of the debt $ 223,955,748 94
Reserve fund—
Held for redemption of United
States notes, acts of January
14. 1875, July 12, 1882 $100,000,000 00
Unavailable for reduction of
the debt:
Fractional silver coin $28,811.037 49
Minor com 531,326 17
Total $29,342,363 66
Certificates held as cash $68,893,670 00
Net cash balance on band 72,298.202 92
Total cash m Treasury as
shown by Treasurer's gen
eral account $ 494,489,985 62
A Church Damage Claim.
Washington. March I.— The trustees of
the Baptist Church at Crab Orchard, Ky.,
presented a bill to Congress for SSOO dam
ages, said to have been inflicted on the
church building during its occupation by
the Federal forces as a hospital. The Com
mittee on War Claims, to whom the bill
was referred, report against its passage for
the reason, as stated, that there never
has been any attempt to collect the claim
from the Quartermaster's Department,
nor is there any proof showing that there
was any objection upon the part of the
trustees of said churcu, nor is there any
proof showing 1 that said property w as taken
possession of, or used by authority of any
commanding officer authorized to issue an
order
AN IMPORTANT CASE.
Testing the Power <>{ an Ecclesiastic to
Annul a Christian Marriage.
Montreal, Feb. 38. —Last December Eliza
beth Globensky, daughter of a rich property
owner, was married to ber cousin, Daniel
Wilson, by Rev. Dr. Doudet, a Presbyter
ian preacher. The parties were Catholics,
but of full age, and the registrar issued
them a license. A Catholic priest refused
to marry them, as the parents of
the lady, who is an heiress, objected to the
union. Mg’r Fabre, Roman Catholic Bishop
of Montreal, was appealed to by the mother
of the bride to declare the marriage null
and void, which his lordship did, and tha
Archbishop of Quebec confirmed the Bish
op’s action. The case has occupied the at
tention of the Superior Court here
for some days. Counsel for the mother
laid down ag an indisputable propo
sition, that as the parties had
not abandoned their religion, they were
subject to laws to which the State had ex
tended, as a protection, its sanction. Coun
sel for the husband maintained that while
England had eonceeded religious liberty to
the Romau Catholics <>f Canada, it could not
be inferred therefrom that it had divested
the Protestant Church of her right to cele
brate the marriages of all Christians: also
that the decrees of the Council of Trent,
on which the Bishops had based their de
cisions, were never promulgated iu Canada.
Moreover the judgment rendered by -the
Privy Council in London in the celebrated
Guibord case clearly showed the absolute
nullity of ecclesiastical decrees of that
kind. ” The case was taken under considera
tion by the court, and the judgment is
eagerly looked for to settle the point that
has been raised for the first time.
TERRIFYING SIGHT
A Circus Elephant on a Rampage at In
dianapolis.
Indianapolis, Feb. 28. —“Hunkey,” an
elephant belonging to the menagerie of
John B. Doris, the showman, became un
manageable to-day w hile her trainer was
endeavoring to teach her the see-saw trick,
and, after exciting all the
other animals by her roaring until
there was terrible discord of uoise, ran
headlong against the side of the building,
bursting out several panels, ami through
the opening she made her escape. Theiufur
ated beast did considerable destruction
about the Exposition grounds, where
the winter quarters of the show
are located. and forced au
opening through the high fence surround
ing the grounds in the same manner that
she had escaped from the building. Tho
next thing she came in contact with was a
barbed-wire fence, on which she lascerated
her trunk nnd breast in a frightful manner.
Her keeper overtook ber here. and. in
trying to force her back to the grounds,
sunk a spear imher ear. It broke off,
the Tend of tne instrument remain
ing buried iu the flesh. She leaped
over the barbed wire, tearing several
long, ugly gashes in doing so. After reach
ing Fall creek, n mile distant, she gave vent
to ner rage by demolishing a small bridge
over the stream. .She was prevented from
coming toward the city, and after two
hours of terrifying conduct she voluntarily
returned to her quarters again, forcing her
way through the fence and bursting out
another opening in the building, w here she
quietly submitted to being chained.
SAM JONES AT CHICAGO
He Produces a Good Impression ou His
First Audience of Three Thousand People.
Chicago. Feb. 28.—Sam Jones’ four
weeks’ revival season opened here to-day
at the Tabernacle erected for Moody’s use.
Notwithstanding the inclement weather the
church was filled before the time for ser
vices to begiD, full three thousand per
sons being pres nt. The revivalist’s ap-
Ecarance and maimer was such as to put
ini on a good footing with the congrega
tion from the start, tie prefaced his ser
mon by a plea for free and easy good fel
lowship, and his own attitude was that of
a man iu his own home, talking to a friend.
The sermon was an earnest one, preached
from the text: “Let your light so shine,”
etc., and appeared to impress the audience
deeply.
Female Type-Se ters.
Boston, Mass., Feb. 27. —A six-days’
type-setting contest, one hour and twenty
minutes daily, between female compositors,
closed to-night. The final score was: Miss
Kenni,24,9soems;Miss Davis,24.6soems ;Miss
Francis, 24.475 ems; Miss Hammond. 15,825
ems. The prizes were a gold watch to Miss
Kenni, a silver watch and chain to Miss
Davis, pearl-mounted opera-glasses to Miss
Francis, and S2O in cash to Miss Hammond.
Three of the ladies beat the best record
made in a similar contest last week be
tween male compositors from the leading
newspaj>er offices.
Pan Electrk Investigation Comm ttee.
Wasuinc ijMi' Feb. 28. —Speaker Carlisle
the committee of nine
members of the House, under the Hanbaek
resolution, to investigate the Pan Electric
Telephone affair, on Tuesday next.
No indication has yet been
given as to who will compose
the committee or when the work of inves
tigation will be begun, but it is believed
that some of the oldest and most expe
rienced members will be selected and that
there will be an organization for and a be
ginning of the investigation next week.
The Police Commiss on' rs Ousted.
Columbus, 0., Feb. 28. —The Ohio Bn.
preme Court has rendered a judgement of
ouster in the quo warpanto cases against
the Cincinnati.police Commission, but re
fused to oust Superintendent Hudson, who
was elected for one year. The action of
Governor Foraker in removing the Com
missioners is thus sustained. In the Hud
son case the decision was unanimous, but
in the Commissioners’ case Follett dis
sented.
A Runaway Girl.
Milan. Tenn., Feb. 28. —Inez J. Augus
tina. a fourteen-year-old girl, was arrested
here last bight while on a" train disguised
in a military suit. She was en route to
New- Orleans, having run away from her
home in Pekin. 111 . from which a telegram
was rece vt d to intercept her. She is a
relative of the Internal Revenue Collector
at Pek n and is held to await the arrival of
her friends. - « ...
Over Niagara Falls.
Suspension Bridge, N. Y., Feb. 28.—a
man thirty-five or forty years of age came
here from Buffalo this afternoon. He took
a carriage to the rapids, and thence to the
falls, where be went on the ice-bound base
of the American falls. He fell or jumped
over, and was lost. He was of medium
size, with sandy whiskers, and wore a silk
hat and a frock overcoat. He looked like a
German
V()L III.—NO. 2.
SAM JONES STRIKES ASNAG
Chicago Church Members Do Nos Like HU
imputations on Their Christianity.
Chicago, March 3.— ln his sermon at tb«
First Baptist Church yesterday, Rev. San
Jones said: “What a privilege it is t*
pray. Now, I want all those who got down
on their knees and prayed before they came
to this meeting to rise in their seats. 1 '
About twenty persons arose in the audi
torium. The evangelist leaned against
the pulpit and seemed to gasp for breath
“You may be seated now,” he said. “Why,
brethren.’ I could find more prayerful
Christians in Hong Kong, China, than
there are in this meeting to-day. If you
can’t pray I want you to take your car
casses out of here. I don’t want you to
come here if you can’t pray.” An aged
man sitting in'one of the front pews leaped
to his feet, and in a faltering voice said:
“Mr. Jones, I don’t think it it
necessary for a person to get down on theii
knees to pray. I consider myself a good
Christian, and I do not like to hear such
talk.” “1 was about to say the same thing.”
exclaimed Rev. Mr. Scudder, of Plymouth
Chuich. “I prayed while on my way tc
church. Goa does not demand that a man
shall get down on his knees before hit
prayers are heard.” “Any more exculpa
tory re marks 1” drawled the evangelist.
Dr. Scudder—They are not exculpatory
remarks. A man with an ear-trumpe'l
arose and punctuated his remarks with
vigorous pounding on the rostrum. “Mr
Jones,” he began, “I did not have time to
get down on my knees to pray for thi«
meeting. I have spent nearly the entire
day reading the Bible to a gambler and
a drunkard, and I think I am entitled
to respect here.” Other men and several
women began to stand up in various sec
tions of the church, but a few explanatory
remarks served to still the tempest, and
the revivalist was permitted to finish his
sermon without further interruption. In
conclusion he said : “Let us take the les
son in the text to our homes and get som«
good out of it.”
SHE NEVER SPOKE AGAIN.
An Old Fashioned Romance of Land and
• Sea. .
Ban Francisco, March 2.—Miss Francis
Hranuelli, in 1879, loved and was loved by
a young sea captain named Herbert
Schrady. Her relatives opposed the match.
Seven years ago Schrady sailed for a Med
iterrean port in command of a merchant
sailing vessel, and the shin was wrecked in
the Strait of Gibraltar, and it was report
ed to Miss TBraunelli that her lover had
gone down with the vessel. She refused tc
believe it, and vowetf that sheyrould never
again open her lips in speech." Since that
time she has kept her vow, and all the ef
forts of her friends to induce her to break
her voluntary silence have failed. The
publication of her strange story yesterday
attracted the attention of a guest of th*
Grand Hotel, who called on Miss Hranuelli
and told her that.be knew Schrady, who ii
now a man of wealth in St. Petersburg.
“Knowing that 1 was coming to San Fran
cisco,” added the visitor, “Schrady begged
me to find bis old sweet-heart, whom he
still loves.” During his recital Miss Hra
nuelli, who is quite a pretty young
woman, sat listless, though she heard every
word. The story seemed to make no im
pression on her. Her mind is evidently
blank, and if her lover comes hack to claim
her he will find, instead of the sprightly
girl he left seven years ago, a hopeless im
becile.
FROM THE SIXTH FLOOR. ~
The Delirious Pullman Car Superintend
ent’s .Tump and Miraculous Escape.
Chicago, March 2. — George O’Hara, As
sistant General Superintendent of the
Pullman Car Company, whose headquar
ters are at St. Louis, has been at the
Palmer House for four or five days,
suffering from a very severe attack
of erysipelas. A day or two ago
the disease reached his brain, and
since t hen he has been auite delirious, and
so unmanageable that toe company deemed
it advisable to place two colored men in
his room to keep constant watch over him.
About 9 o’clock this morning he proved too
much for them, and breaking away from
their grasp, jumped through the win
dow of his room, w-hich was on ths
sixth floor of the hotel, it overlooked a
court in the center of the building. When
he fell he lit on the wirework covering th#
glass roof of the reading-room. The at
tendants rushed down stairs in p - eat
alarm, supposing their charge would b$
killed by the fail, but when he was picked
up and examined it could not be ascer
tained that any bones were broken or that
he had sustained any serious- injury.
Physicians are hopeful that he will recover,
Exciting Experience with Burglars.
Wheaton, III.; March 2 —Two burglars
entered the residence of L. L. Hyatt at an
early hour Sunday morning.- One of them
held a revolver to Mr. Hyatt’s head, while
the other ransacked the house.. After they
left Hyatt arose, got tpgether a posse of
neighbors and started in pursuit. The
burglars were surprised while eating break
fast at Turner Junction. One of the posse
presented his gun and ask them to throw
up their hands, which they did. but
suddenly one of them dashed out of
the door, followed by H. D. Comp
ton, who filled his back with bird
shot, w hieb brought him down. He got up
and ran for about two miles, but-was finally
chased into a barn. Two of the party en
tered and called upon him to surrender.
He attacked them and tried to get away
he revolver carried bv Charles Mack. In .
the struggle it went off, the bail hitting the
burglar Between the eyes, but not killing
him. Both burglars were brought to
Wheaton and consigned to the care of the
sheriff. The wounded man will probably die.
Petroleum in Ntw Mexico, '
Santa Fe, N. M.-, "March 2.-The report
that an artesian flow of crude •petroleum
had been discovered in the southern part
of Santa Fe County, between the mining
villages of Golden and Wallace, was con
firmed yesterday, and samples of the oil
brought here and tested- The oil flows
through tubing fifty-five feet down, and
tie flow- is capacious and steady. The
crude oil burns freely and with a bright
flame. Several claims have already beeD
located in the vicinity of the well.
Kansas Promised Big Crops.
Topeka, Kas., March 2.— The
Fanner to morrow will print a summary
of crop reports for the State. It sate that,
except in extreme Western Kansas live
stock came out through the winter well,
although there were some heavy losses in
hogs from cholera. The cond tionof wheat
is almost universally good. The corn area
will exceed any previous record.
A Treaty of Ptace Signed at List.
Vienna. March 2—A treaty of peace be
tween Servia and Bulgaria was signed at
Bucharest to-day